AI News. April 7, 2026
Meta to lay off an additional 200 workers in Burlingame and Sunnyvale, adding to ~2,200 layoffs already announced this year
OpenAI published a policy proposal calling for a Public Wealth Fund giving all Americans an automatic stake in AI companies, a subsidized four-day work week, and higher capital gains taxes on AI-driven returns
Aethir launched Aethir Claw, an always-on AI agent for real-time social media sentiment tracking, whale monitoring, and automated engagement running in an isolated VPS
Genspark is demoing AI Workspace 4.0 live on April 7 at 8 PM PT
New York will require AI disclosures in ads starting in June
OpenAI launched the Safety Fellowship, a new program for external researchers to pursue AI safety and alignment research running September 2026 through February 2027
Synchronicity Labs launched Sync-3, its most advanced lipsync model to date
OpenAI is on track to IPO as early as Q4 2026, with CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar reportedly confident following the company’s $122B fundraise
Telegram’s latest update adds a fully private on-device AI message editor, bot-creates-bot functionality, and major upgrades to polls including media support, voter visibility, and time limits
Nodle joins NVIDIA’s Inception Program, gaining access to technical resources and go-to-market support to advance its DePIN and edge AI network
Meta is preparing to release its first LLM built under Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, with plans to eventually open-source versions of the new model family
SubStudio launched, a free open-source AI tool that generates and embeds subtitles into any video in seconds.
EU Digital Identity Wallet launches in 2026, requiring all member states to offer citizens a smartphone app for storing IDs, signing documents, and accessing public and private services
Solana Foundation is hosting Accelerate AI, an invite-only Solana x AI event in Miami on May 6th featuring talks, demos, workshops, and a happy hour.
Virtuals launched Eastworlds, a robotics accelerator program in KL where projects that reach $5M FDV and sustain it for one week become eligible for a residency
Google’s Gemma 4 can now run fully offline on mobile devices, enabling local agentic tasks without an internet connection
Nvidia-backed Aigen deploys solar-powered robots using vision AI to identify and remove weeds at the plant level, helping farmers reduce herbicide use
Nous Research added a Manim skill to Hermes Agent, enabling the agent to generate 3Blue1Brown-style mathematical animation videos from a single prompt using Claude Sonnet 3.7
Blackstart Infrastructure Partners and OpenVPP are partnering to bring the first data center on-chain, with Blackstart being one of the largest data center operators in the US
Anthropic signed a deal with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-gen TPU capacity coming online in 2027 to train and serve frontier Claude models
